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** [[Reality Is Unrealistic|All of which was perfectly common on the front lines of Vietnam in the final years of the war.]]
* All of the military personnel in ''[[WarGames]]''. The only person who has anything that comes close to a military haircut is the four-star general. The rest of the members of the Air Force in the movie look like they haven't had a military haircut in months.
** Being fair, they're staff officers working in an isolated headquarters that due to the nature of its duties and the general environment doesn't hold personnel inspections very often. And as any military person knows, when you stop holding regular grooming inspections then its not very long before grooming standards go straight to shit.
* ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''. The only-somewhat-mildly military feel of the film probably comes from the fact that most of the characters are high for a good percent of the film. This in turn probably comes from the chaotic behavior of the actors during their time on set, which included massive amounts of drug consumption.
** Actually a Truth in Television.By the end of the war the US forces had fallen apart and some units were almost unrecognizable as professional military. And truly staggering numbers were indeed regularly on drugs (we're talking double-figure percentages for regular marijuana and heroin use, according to some figures). Veterans have remarked on how accurately (compared to even ''Platoon'' or ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'') [[Fridge Horror|it captures the atmosphere of 'Nam!]]
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